14 December 2018- In The New York Times article The Odd Political Alliance Behind Today’s Gerrymandering, we learn that the Supreme Court ordered certain states to redraw, or gerrymander, congressional districts so that the African-Americans were concentrated together in hopes of allowing more black representatives to be elected to office. Although this worked at first, It also had the unintended consequence of making most of the other districts have no minority representation, which in the end turned out worse for the African-American. This is because the party with more seats has almost full autonomy with the lawmaking. They even have the ability to gerrymander the districts to favor them even more as long as it is for partisan cause without racial motive.

This is where the whole situation gets consequential as political affiliation is strongly tied to race. According to the Pew research center’s Party affiliation among voters: 1992-2016, 87 percent of Black voters lean Democrat while 54 percent of White voters lean Republican, this disparity has been increasing over the past years. Overall, there seem to be more democrats than republicans in America, however, the distribution of the congressional land really manipulates voting in such a way that it ultimately silences the minority. In a democracy, people should choose the politician they’re voting for, the politician shouldn’t choose who votes for them.